Ecclestone furious at Schumacher photo no-show - reports

Bernie Ecclestone was furious on Friday when Michael Schumacher did not show
up for F1's end-of-season photograph.
Amid the backdrop of the colour-changing Yas Marina Hotel late on Friday,
team bosses and all the drivers were summoned for a ...

Bernie Ecclestone was furious on Friday when Michael Schumacher did not show
up for F1's end-of-season photograph.

Amid the backdrop of the colour-changing Yas Marina Hotel late on Friday,
team bosses and all the drivers were summoned for a photograph with the
international media.

But according to Blick newspaper, Schumacher - as well as Bruno Senna and
Timo Glock - did not appear.

The report said Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn tried in vain to call
Schumacher on his mobile phone. "Has he retired again?" angry F1 chief
executive Ecclestone is quoted as saying.

According to another report in Brazil's Globo, Senna apologised for not
showing up, insisting that his team had not informed him in time after
being summoned to the stewards to explain his practice incident with Lewis
Hamilton.

Two explanations were given for Glock's absence, according to Globo. The
first was that he was having treatment for a sore foot, and the second that
he was on the other side of the paddock and simply ran out of time to
appear.